This year’s annual 420 Rally left behind everything from trash to complaints about long lines. Four days after the gathering in Civic Center Park, Mayor Michael Hancock called for a review of the annual event. The results were just announced: an almost $12,000 fine for the organizer, who’s banned from applying for event permits for three years.
Dozens of readers have weighed in on a recent story, Why It’s So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy. David A. posted on Facebook: The pay scale here isn’t keeping up with the rising rents. My first apartment 10 years ago cost me $620 for a…
On Friday morning, May 19, Mayor Michael Hancock and other Denver officials announced at the city’s annual Housing Summit a number of new initiatives to address homelessness, rising rent costs and a lack of affordable housing in Denver. Mayor Hancock opened the summit, which was held at the Hyatt Regency…
The CCDC is alleging that Gigi’s Wigs and Beauty Supply violated both federal and state anti-discrimination laws when the owner, Taek J. Yi, removed McHenry-Edrington after he saw that she was accompanied by her service dog.
Have you ever wondered how Colorado’s legislature works? Or perhaps you don’t care, because you’re convinced that all politicians are corrupt. In either case, former state senator Linda Newell, a Democrat who recently finished an eight-year term representing Littleton at the State Capitol, hopes that a video documentary series she’s…
Hunter Donnelly, a now former member of the Colorado State Rams, has been both an accused perpetrator of crime and a victim of one in recent weeks. He was dismissed from school after an arrest for allegedly violating a protection order involving a former girlfriend. But he also had thousands in bling stolen from him, reportedly by a teammate, Braylin Scott, who, according to law enforcers, tried to sell the stuff on Craigslist.
As spring heads into summer, there’s nothing Coloradans love more than getting outside and exploring the great outdoors…often with cannabis for a real Rocky Mountain high. But it’s illegal to smoke in federal parks, which is why edibles are an ideal item to pack. Whether you’re heading to the mountains for the weekend or just hanging out in your back yard, here are ten of the best edibles to bite into this summer.
Today’s departure of Tom Green from the CW2 morning show Daybreak and the hubbub over the awkward nature of CBS4 weather man Ed Greene’s slow retirement announcement are the latest reminders that longtime personalities at news stations in Denver and across the country are increasingly considered to be expendable. Falling revenues and shrinking audiences have resulted in cost-cutting that regularly leads to the vanishing of big local stars, as exemplified by news of 9News sportscaster Drew Soicher’s disappearance late last year and station anchor Adele Arakawa’s impending exit in June. Which leads to the inevitable question: Who’s next?
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Shortly after the Denver Post revealed plans to move its newsroom out of Denver to Adams County, the newspaper is ending and rebranding Denver Post TV, an ambitious effort to regularly create television-news style segments intended to compliment and enhance its reporting. The Post has also parted company with Molly Hughes, a former CBS4 anchor hired in 2014 as the public face of the project. But editor Lee Ann Colacioppo stresses that the move shouldn’t be interpreted as the Post abandoning the visual side of news.
Two Coloradans in the House of Representatives, Diana DeGette and Mike Coffman, introduced a bill today, May 18, that would protect states with legal marijuana from the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress.
The new maple floor in the ballroom of the Highlands Masonic Temple at 3550 Federal Boulevard is ready for dancing. The floor, replaced in February, is made from the same material used on the building when it was built ninety years ago. Designed by brothers Merrill and Burnham Hoyt in…
Working at a for-profit Colorado prison made an indelible impression on Sue Binder, who became convinced that management was more interested in keeping the place as full —and profitable — as possible than helping inmates prepare for release or treating staff fairly.
Indivisible Denver, a collective formed to oppose the agenda of President Donald Trump and hold local officials accountable, has undergone a division of its own. Co-founder Eric Shumake, who recently told us about weekly protests against Senator Cory Gardner dubbed the Sunday Gardner, has split off from numerous ID members who are now part of a separate outfit.
When Colorado legalized cannabis, people had a lot of questions. More than three years after recreational dispensaries first opened their doors in this state, researchers are starting to answer some of those questions. While many marijuana studies focus on the general public, most of the people surveyed for a just-released report by the Cannabis Consumers Coalition were regular users who consume cannabis at least once a day.
Named after country star Willie Nelson, the original stoney Red Headed Stranger, this sativa-dominant hybrid’s flower and concentrates are now at dozens of dispensaries. But is Red Headed Stranger worth all the space?
The Denver Police Department has launched a series of videos intended to reveal myths about sex offenders in the Mile High City. Detective David Bourgeois, who stars in the clips, provided Westword with additional details about myths exposed in the first installment, on view below, and previews future episodes, revealing, for example, that not every registered sex offender can be found online.
A new lawsuit filed against DaVita, a kidney-dialysis giant that’s among the most prominent companies based in Denver, echo some of the allegations in a scorching exposé of the firm and the industry by HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The complaint, one of two collective actions being pressed on behalf of past and present DaVita employees, claims that clinics are severely understaffed and the assembly line pace of care that’s maintained in an effort to maximize profits exploits workers and endangers patients’ lives.
Guest columnist Terry Maxon worked as an airlines reporter in Dallas for more than two decades, covering the major carriers headquartered in North Texas. Here, he offers his take on the airline’s recent run of negative attention — deserved and otherwise. If you’re like most people, you may be wondering…
Jacob Ayol, a security supervisor at the Denver International Airport who came to America from Sudan in 2003, was working at the airport when Trump’s first travel ban took effect in January.
This week, Officer John Adsit is officially retiring from the Denver Police Department because of injuries he sustained after being hit by a car while working crowd control during a December 2014 protest about a grand jury decision in the death of Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown. The damage Adsit sustained was so horrific that despite countless hours of rehab and more than two dozen surgeries, he was only able to return to the job for about a week or so over the approximately 29 months that followed.
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